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Gangnam Revival.

April 5, 2013, Published by

Korea has been in the news a lot this past year. First Psy decided to invade music charts, and minds, everywhere with the song Gangnam Style and now the tensions of the peninsula are being ratcheted up by bellicose rhetoric from the North. When I think of the Republic of Korea, however, I don’t think first of that horse riding style dance, or of the DMZ and the military tensions; when I think of Korea I think of revival. I think of a nation where 1 in 3 people are Christians and where many of the worlds largest churches are found. There...
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They that wait

March 12, 2013, Published by

Wait. It has to be one of the more frustrating words in the English language. In Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett wrote an enduring tale of two men waiting for the arrival of an enigmatic third character, Godot, who never appears. The word wait has become laden down with our feelings and fears of deferred hope, potential missed opportunities, anticipation, impatience and delay. Yet the bible talks frequently of waiting on or for God, and the positive results it brings. In the bible waiting comes across as an action, rather than the absence of action. On Friday night I had the privilege...
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Symphony…

March 1, 2013, Published by

I remember, some years back, writing about Mahler’s 6th Symphony – The Tragic. I never could understand why it got it’s name; I was enticed by the opening march of the first movement, with it’s heroic and adventurous lustre, and the beautiful little melodies and rhythms that distracted me from the theme. It was my favourite symphony. In 2009 I was blessed with the opportunity to go see it performed by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Sage Music Hall. I was captivated as Valery Gergiev, one of our age’s great conductors, led over a hundred instruments in unison. There,...
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin

February 14, 2013, Published by

About four thousand years ago an old man, nearing the end of his days, set to thinking about relationships. He was a widower, but his concern was for his son who could have, at this point, been named after the lead character in a Steve Carell movie: The forty year old virgin. So the father called his servant and asked him to swear an oath. Instructions followed for the servant to go forth and find the son a bride. The father, Abraham, gave very specific instructions on how this would happen. Valentine’s day can sometimes be a touch melancholic for...
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Let Down Your Nets

February 8, 2013, Published by

Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of state during the Bush administration, once famously said that there were four types of known. There were known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns; it’s just a complicated say of saying there’s a lot of stuff that we know and a lot of stuff that we don’t know. For God however, there is only one type of known; one of the perks of omniscience is the fact that you know absolutely everything there is to know. It’s baffling to me, then, that I still sometimes find myself thinking about things as though I know...
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